Integrative Clinician & Healing Strategist

Alex Mufson is the founder of Canary House and serves as the organization's lead Integrative Clinician and Healing Strategist. She holds a Master's in Social Work from Boston University and has spent her career directing, stabilizing, and integrating complex systems of care across residential, outpatient, and private practice settings.

Alex specializes in high-complexity cases that do not fit neatly within a single diagnosis, specialty, or treatment model. Her work focuses on identifying the underlying patterns that connect seemingly unrelated symptoms, helping clients and providers make sense of presentations that have often become fragmented across multiple practitioners, normal laboratory findings, or competing explanations.

Drawing from psychology, neuroimmune science, metabolism, nervous system regulation, attachment theory, and chronic illness care, Alex develops strategic treatment frameworks that bring coherence to complexity. She is known for her ability to determine what requires attention now, what can safely wait, and what may be creating unnecessary noise within a plan.

Rather than pursuing more interventions, Alex focuses on improving the sequence, timing, and integration of care. Her approach recognizes that many people are not lacking information. They are lacking a framework that explains how the pieces fit together. By identifying the primary drivers of a case and anticipating the downstream effects of treatment decisions, she helps reduce unnecessary escalation, repetitive trial-and-error approaches, and the exhaustion that often accompanies long-term health challenges.

Within Canary House, Alex oversees clinical strategy, case formulation, and treatment architecture. She guides the team in integrating emerging research with practical clinical application, ensuring that each client's care remains deliberate, individualized, and internally consistent. Her role is to hold the full map of the case, allowing every intervention to occur within a broader context rather than as an isolated solution.

Her work is also informed by personal experience navigating complex medical systems, providing a unique understanding of both the clinical and human dimensions of chronic illness. This perspective allows her to bridge the gap between scientific understanding and lived experience while maintaining a focus on clarity, precision, and meaningful progress.

Complex Trauma & Identity Specialist

Brie Valletto is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and Complex Trauma & Attachment Specialist with advanced training in Clinical Psychology and experience spanning inpatient, residential, therapeutic boarding school, and outpatient settings. Her career has been dedicated to understanding how human beings adapt to adversity and how those adaptations continue to shape relationships, identity, behavior, and wellbeing long after the original circumstances have passed.

Brie's work focuses on high-functioning individuals whose suffering is often hidden beneath competence. Many of the people she serves are successful, capable, deeply responsible, and highly adapted. They may be leading organizations, caring for families, achieving professionally, or appearing outwardly resilient while privately struggling with anxiety, grief, burnout, compulsive patterns, perfectionism, relationship difficulties, neurodivergence, chronic stress, or a persistent sense of disconnection from themselves.

She is particularly skilled at working with individuals whose adaptations have become difficult to distinguish from their identities. Over time, survival strategies such as overachievement, hyper-independence, caretaking, emotional suppression, people-pleasing, productivity, or relentless self-reliance can become so normalized that they no longer appear as adaptations at all. Brie helps clients understand not only what they are doing, but why they learned to do it, and whether those patterns continue to serve them.

Drawing from attachment theory, trauma-informed care, developmental psychology, and contemporary neuroscience, Brie helps clients make sense of experiences that have often felt confusing, contradictory, or difficult to name. She recognizes that many symptoms are not evidence of personal weakness or pathology, but intelligent responses to environments, relationships, and experiences that required adaptation.

Within Canary House, Brie provides individual and group care that supports deeper self-understanding, emotional flexibility, and meaningful integration. Her work creates space for clients to examine longstanding patterns without judgment, allowing insight to emerge without overwhelming the nervous system or destabilizing existing supports.

Known for her warmth, steadiness, and clinical depth, Brie is deeply trusted by clients navigating complexity. She has a unique ability to hold difficult conversations with both compassion and clarity, helping people move beyond survival-based ways of living and toward a more authentic, connected, and sustainable relationship with themselves and others.

Bioadaptive Integration Specialist

Karla Gomez is a Bioadaptive Integration Specialist with advanced graduate training at the intersection of psychology, trauma, and physiology. She holds a Master's degree in Psychology with a concentration in entheogenic-assisted psychotherapy, along with post-master's training in trauma counseling.

Karla's work focuses on helping clients understand the relationship between physiology, adaptation, and personal narrative. She specializes in supporting individuals whose symptoms have become intertwined with identity, fear, confusion, or years of conflicting explanations about what is happening in their bodies.

Drawing from both psychological and physiological frameworks, Karla helps clients make sense of laboratory findings, symptom patterns, nervous system responses, and health histories without reducing themselves to diagnoses or biomarker values. Her approach recognizes that people do not experience physiology in isolation. They experience it through meaning, interpretation, expectation, and story.

She is particularly skilled at helping clients identify the narratives that emerge around chronic symptoms and health challenges. Whether those narratives involve fear, self-blame, hopelessness, hypervigilance, or over-identification with illness, Karla helps clients develop a more grounded and accurate understanding of what their bodies may be communicating.

Within Canary House, Karla serves as a bridge between physiological information and lived experience. She helps clients integrate new insights, recognize adaptive patterns, and build trust in their ability to respond to their bodies without becoming consumed by them. Her work emphasizes orientation, curiosity, and regulation, creating space for meaningful change without force or urgency.

Known for her thoughtful presence and integrative perspective, Karla helps clients move from confusion to understanding and from symptom-focused living toward a more collaborative relationship with themselves. She believes that healing is not only about changing physiology, but also about changing the story through which physiology is understood.

Peptide & Medical · PharmD

Dr. Jill White is a Doctor of Pharmacy with advanced training in functional wellness and therapeutic integration. She serves as Canary House’s PharmD, supporting medication and peptide strategy within complex, coordinated care.

Jill’s work centers on the safe, deliberate use of prescription-grade therapeutics in clients with layered physiological and regulatory presentations. She provides pharmacologic oversight that emphasizes appropriateness, sequencing, and client comprehension rather than rapid escalation or protocol-driven care.

Working closely with the Canary House team, Jill supports clients from the point of prescribing through integration and follow-up. Her role includes medication coordination, education, and practical guidance around movement, nutrition, and lifestyle factors that influence therapeutic response.

Jill is known for her ability to translate complex pharmacology into grounded, actionable understanding while maintaining clinical rigor. Her work ensures that medications and peptides are introduced with clarity, intention, and respect for the client’s broader regulatory landscape.